An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... remarkable fall , by an exclamation formed in the manner of funeral lamentations : How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ! Thou ? Thou art dashed down to the earth , thou 16 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... remarkable fall , by an exclamation formed in the manner of funeral lamentations : How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ! Thou ? Thou art dashed down to the earth , thou 16 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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... remarkable . THE groupe of allegorical perfonages that fucceeds the last mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) ...
... remarkable . THE groupe of allegorical perfonages that fucceeds the last mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) ...
Page 52
... remarkable . What profaic tameness and infipidity do we meet with in the following lines ? Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks ...
... remarkable . What profaic tameness and infipidity do we meet with in the following lines ? Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks ...
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... remarkable ; he afferts , qu'on ne peut jamais faire un bon opera ; parceque la mufique ne fauroit narrer ; que les paffions n'y peuvent etre peintes dans toute l'etenduë qu'elles demandent ; que d'ailleurs elle ne fauroit fouvent ...
... remarkable ; he afferts , qu'on ne peut jamais faire un bon opera ; parceque la mufique ne fauroit narrer ; que les paffions n'y peuvent etre peintes dans toute l'etenduë qu'elles demandent ; que d'ailleurs elle ne fauroit fouvent ...
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... remarkable circumftance . On the first fight of Dryden he abandoned the rest , having now found an author , whofe caft was exactly congenial with his own . His works therefore he studied , with equal pleasure and attention : he placed ...
... remarkable circumftance . On the first fight of Dryden he abandoned the rest , having now found an author , whofe caft was exactly congenial with his own . His works therefore he studied , with equal pleasure and attention : he placed ...
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